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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Walking To Buchenwald

Walking To Buchenwald

Jacobson, Tom

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ISBN10: 0881457493
ISBN13: 9780881457490
Publisher: Broadway Play Pub Inc (Ny)
Published: Dec 29 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In life, death, and in playwright Tom Jacobson's world view, these familiar five stages to acceptance are missing the one that is most important for survival: Laughing. Life is funny. People are funny. If God exists, He, She, They, or It must have a sense of humor--however twisted and brutal.
The 'shattering comedy' Jacobson promises in the press notes for WALKING TO BUCHENWALD sneaks up on you....
...We know Jacobson has a deeper story simmering....
The fractured core of the show's universe reveals itself gradually. Naturalistic scenes and behaviors take on increasingly surrealistic elements. We start to wonder what exactly is going on. Is this the end of the world? Figuratively, the answer is yes. Literally? We're not sure. But all bets are off. And yet... somehow, in a final, quiet, awful, loving gesture of human generosity, Jacobson gives us hope--and a lot to think about.
BUCHENWALD is about identity. It takes a wide, nonjudgmental look at what it means to be a parent, a spouse, a child; what it feels like to be in a relationship with a partner who is your temperamental opposite; to be a liberal in a Red State; an American in a Trump-like western world; someone dying in a world obsessed with hollow positivity; and what it means to be a European shackled to an America teeming with reemerging nativism.
Jacobson doesn't seek to determine who is to blame for anything. None of us is to blame. All of us are to blame. Blame God. Whatever. This is our world. The way we live now, and the way we die. BUCHENWALD lingers long after the final curtain, its puzzles working their way into your dreams....
Samuel Garza Bernstein, Stage And Cinema

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